When Coach Reeves is in his hotel room, the theme music on the television is from "Lou Grant," another MTM Productions television show that was running during the same time period.
When Coach Reeves announces trip to Las Vegas to play in the basketball tournament, Coolidge says he's not flying because of what happened "last time". This is a reference to the emergency the team experienced in the previous episode, Airball (1979), while flying to a tournament in San Jose. It is a rare mention in this show of events that have occurred outside of the current episode.